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Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Dickinson County, Iowa. Official Website The county was organized in 1857 and is named in honor of Daniel S. Dickinson, a U.S. Senator for New York. The Spirit Lake Massacre (March 8–12, 1857) was an attack by a Wahpekute band of Santee Sioux on scattered Iowa frontier settlements during a severe winter. Suffering a shortage of f...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Sioux County, Iowa. Official Website Sioux County was formed on January 15, 1851. It has been self-governed since January 20, 1860. It was named after the Sioux Tribe. Adjacent Counties Lyon County Lincoln County, SD Union County, SD Plymouth County O'Brien County Cities & Townships Alton | Boyden | Buncombe |...
This project is for those buried in Dexter Cemetery, Dexter, Dallas County, Iowa. IA Gen Web Iowa Gravestones Find A Grave Billion Graves
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Dallas County, Iowa. Official Website The land that now forms Dallas County was ceded by the Sac and Fox nation to the United States in a treaty signed on October 11, 1842. Dallas County's name referred to United States Vice President George M. Dallas, who served from 1845 to 1849. Adjacent Counties Adair County Guthrie C...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Guthrie County, Iowa.= Official Website =The county was formed on January 15, 1851 and named after Captain Edwin B. Guthrie, who had died in the Mexican–American War. Adjacent Counties * Greene County * Dallas County * Adair County * Carroll County * Audubon County Cities *Adair*Bagley*Bayard*Casey*Coon Rapids*Guthrie Center (County S...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Des Moines County, Iowa. Not to be confused with the city of Des Moines in Polk County . Official Website Des Moines County derives its name from the Des Moines River, which flows through the city of Des Moines and originally flowed through the county. When the county was divided early in Iowa's history, the river ended up furth...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa. Not to be confused with Des Moines County . Des Moines is the capital of Iowa and the county seat of Polk County and was originally named Fort Des Moines, which was shortened in 1857. Official Website Des Moines traces its origins to May 1843, when Captain James Allen supervised the construction o...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Decatur County, Iowa. Official Website Decatur County was organized in 1850 and named for Stephen Decatur, a naval hero of the War of 1812. Adjacent Counties Clarke County Wayne County Mercer County, Missouri Harrison County, Missouri Ringgold County Cities Davis City Decatur City Garden Grove Grand Ri...
This is for profiles created as part of the Lithuanian Heritage Project, a group on Facebook.The goal of the Lithuanian Heritage Project is to work collaboratively to build the information bridge between countries and generations, to collect information that enables Lithuanians globally to connect with their Lithuanian family members.For more information on the project, please contact Ann Marie...
Wikipedia = Iowa State University of Science and Technology, more commonly known as Iowa State University, Iowa State, or ISU, is a public land-grant and space-grant research university located in Ames, Iowa, United States.Founded in 1858 and coeducational from its start, Iowa State became the nation’s first designated land-grant institution when the Iowa Legislature accepted the provisions of ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Davis County, Iowa. Official Website Davis County was named in honor of Garrett Davis, a Congressman from Kentucky from March 4, 1839, till March 3, 1847, and later a US Senator from Kentucky. Adjacent Counties Appanoose County Monroe County Wapello County Schuyler County, Missouri Van Buren County Jefferson County
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Davenport, Scott County, Iowa. Official Website History Davenport was founded on May 14, 1836 by Antoine Le Claire and was named for his friend George Davenport, a former English sailor who served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812, served as a supplier Fort Armstrong, worked as a fur trader with the American Fur Company, a...
Place projects are projects on Geni that are focused of a specific geographical place or region. Places profiles are also the precursor to the upcoming Place Profiles feature.=Place project portals= Includes countries and kingdoms, and other top level place project. ==Geographical==* Australia * Canada * Europe** Al-Andalus ** Austro-Hungarian-Empire ** Belarus ** Czech Republic-Bohemia ** Croa...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Madison County, Iowa.= Official Website =Madison County was formed on January 13, 1846. It has been self-governed since 1849. It was named after James Madison (1751–1836), the fourth President of the United States. Hiram Hurst, a suspected murderer, arsonist and hog thief, was the first white settler in Madison County, having come fro...
This project is for those buried in Dallas Center Cemetery, New Market, Taylor County, Iowa. Find a Grave
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jackson County, Iowa.= Official Website =The county was formed on December 21, 1837 and named after US President Andrew Jackson. Adjacent Counties * Dubuque County * Jones County * Jo Daviess County, I'll * Carroll County, I'll * Clinton County Cities *Andrew*Baldwin*Bellevue*La Motte*Maquoketa*Miles*Monmouth*Preston*Sabula*St. Donatu...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Clinton County, Iowa. Official Website Clinton County was formed on December 21, 1837. It was named for DeWitt Clinton, a Governor of New York and most ardent advocate for the construction of the Erie Canal. In 1835, Elijah Buell built a log cabin for himself and his family and was thus the first settler of the region. In 1854, ...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Dubuque County, Iowa. History Dubuque County is named for French trader Julien Dubuque, the first European settler of Iowa, and an early lead mining pioneer in what is now Dubuque County. Dubuque was French Canadian, and had (by most accounts) a friendly relationship with the local Fox tribe of Native Americans. He and other early pi...
This cemetery is located on 2200 C Street Southwest, Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa. Also known as Czech National Cemetery . Find a Grave IA Gen Web
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Scott County, Iowa. Official Website The first American settlement in the area now known as Scott County was Clark's Ferry or Clark's Landing (now Buffalo) in 1833. Other early towns included Davenport (now the county seat and largest city) and the town of Rockingham (which ceased to exist in 1847). The area was fully surveyed in ...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Jones County, Iowa.= Official Website =The county was founded in 1837 and named after George Wallace Jones, a United States Senator and member of Congress. Adjacent Counties * Delaware County * Dubuque County * Jackson County * Clinton County * Cedar County * Linn County Cities *Anamosa (County Seat)*Cascade*Martelle*Monticello*Morle...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Howard County, Iowa.= Official Website =The county was founded in 1851; it was named for General Tilghman Ashurst Howard, a Representative of Indiana. Adjacent Counties * Fillmore County, Minn. * Mower County, Minn. * Winneshiek County * Chickasaw County * Floyd County * Mitchell County Cities, Townships & Communities *Afton*Albion*Bo...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Woodbury County, Iowa. Official Website Originally established in 1851 as Wahkaw County, the Iowa Legislature in 1853 changed the name to Woodbury County in honor of Levi Woodbury (1789–1851), a senator and governor of New Hampshire who served as a Supreme Court justice from 1844 until his death. Adjacent Counties Plymouth C...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Ida County, Iowa.= Official Website =The county was authorized by the Iowa Legislature in January 1851 as a packet of projected counties in unorganized territory of western Iowa. It was named after Ida Smith, the first child of European immigrants to be born in this region. Adjacent Counties * Cherokee County * Woodbury County * Crawf...
This project is for those buried in Violet Hill Cemetery, Perry, Dallas County, Iowa. Violet Hill Cemetery is on the north side of the town of Perry. To reach the cemetery, take 1st street to Park St, and continue to the cemetery. It is divided into two sections by 8th Street which goes north and south through the middle, making two distinct parts. The west side has a burial dated 1849, Welco...